St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-21
DEATH BEFORE Them.
The Illinois Supreme Court
Has Closed Out the
Anarchist Case,
And Will Grant the Con-
demned Mems Counsel No
Further Favors.
The Services Of Gen. Roger A.
Pryor Enlisted in
Their Behalf.
Train. Robbers in Texas Get
Away With Booty VAL
ued at $4,000.
Special to the Globe.


OTTAWA, ILL.,, Sept. 0.-Capt. Black
appeared before the supreme court this
morning and asked leave to withdraw
the record in the case of the anarchists
for thirty days, presumably for the pur-
pose of taking it to New York, and for
assistance in completing his appeal to
the supreme court of the United States.
Chief Justice Sheldon, speaking for the
court, denied the motion. Capt Black
was very much downcast by the de-
ciSiOn.
GEN. PRYOR ENGAGED.
Special to the Globe
NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-Gen. Roger A.
Pryor stated to-day that he had been
retained in the anarchist cases, and was
proceeding at once, to formulate an ap-
peal to the supreme court.
NO CASE FOR A PARDON.
New YORK, Sept. 20.-In the course
Of a long editorial the Tribune this
morning says:
1t is no cause for surprise that petitions for
the pardon of the anarchists are receiving
many signatures in Chicago. There are al
ways fools to SympathiZe with murderers but
who never give a thought to their victims
There are always weak-minded persons who
sign any petition presented to them, whether
1t is to put a rogue or blockhead into an of
flee or to let a criminal loose upon society II
may be that these petitions will receive many
thousand signatures. 1t may even be that
they will receive SO many as to be mistaken
by some for the expression of public senti-
.meat. We shall hope to be spared any such
exhibition of maudlin sentiment. But if it
should come, Gov. 0glesby would find that
he had in his hands the decision of an issue
OF national importance. These men are not
ordinary criminals. The question raised
M Qlti tn hn ti.0,,.
OF eXpediency commonly involved in the
pardon cf male factors. The unwise release
of murderer or burglar may have serious
results. but the harm that would be done
would after all, spend itself within a mar
row circle. But if these men should be par
doned, or their sentence should be eommuted
which would doubtless be only the first
step toward a pardon at some future day
the news would send a thrill of joy through
every band of anarchists in America and
Europe. Every man who breaches assassi-
nation and destruction would be eiated In
Europe ftsvfstaSa ase. iaateFpfeted to mean that
in the great republic license and liberty were
one ana the same thing. 1t would be said
that, having got our hands on the throats of
these miScreantS we lost courage and in
stead of choking their lives out of them to
protect our own we lost stcourage and weakly
let them go. In this country every lawless
element would take heart at once and go on
with new plans for spreading their gospel of
murder. The pardon of these men would
multiply hundred fold every danger that
exists to-day from this class in our popula-
ton. This would be a fearful responsibility
for an executive to take. If a few noisy
Thousand demand it. let GOV. Oglesby think
of the silent millions who sternly wait to see
justice done.
THE PETITION.
CHICAGO. Sept. 20.-The committee
having in charge the circulation of a
petition begging mercy for the con-
demned anarchists have concluded that
the mild form of prayer originally
adopted will not meet the views of those
who have 'sadvanced'' ideas on the sub
: ject, and consider the convicted seven
not as criminals, but as martyrs. To
obtain the signatures of such, the fol-
lowing has been adopted and will be
circulated in addition to the first de-
signed petition:
To His Excellency Richard j. Oglesby,
Governor of the State of Illinois: The under
signed having watched with great interest
the progress of events in connection with
and since the trial in Chicago of the so-called
anarchists. August Spies, Michael Schwab,
Oscar Neebe, Albert r. Parsons, Samuel
Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg and
George Engel, and believing that the sentence
against them was and is unwarranted by the
evidence, extreme in its severity and induced
by a view of the law never hitherto sane
toned by any well-considered precedent ;and
that the accused were not shown to have
been guilty of the throwing or causing to be
% Haymarkes W meeting; @ and nc bel being sSfssed ADVISED
in effect by the statement OF the prosecution
in said case, that the men were selected and
proceeded against simply because of their
position as leaders in the general labor agita-
ton, which seems to us as unwarranted US it
is injudicious, and calculated to embitter the
wage-workers still further against the pres
ent social order, and believing that in case
of this kind humanity and the state are bet
fpr nv mi hu
cution of Judgment, the justice of which
is questioned by very many of our people,
we respectfully protest against the execution
thereof, and bespeak in the name of justice,
mercy and humanity the exercise by your
excellency of the executive clemency in the
case of these men.
AN INFLANrMAToRY CIRCULAR.
TeLEDo, Sept. 2O.-An infiammatory
circular signed Federation of Trades
Unions" and dated New York, Sept. 1S,
was distributed about the streets here
last night. 1t calls on the workingmen
to meet and denOunce the action of the
supreme court of Illinois in affirming
the sentence of death in the anarchists
case. Judge Gray and everybody con-
nected with the trial is condemned in
severe language. A mass meeting of
anarchists has been called for Wednes-
day night to express an opinion regard
Capt. Black had an interview with
Clerk Taylor as to the cost and time it
would require to make copy of the
record. He said he did not know what
they mould do; that there had been a
great deal of talk about the defense
committee having abundance of money,
but that it was not true; they had
practically none. The captain took
certified copy of the pro-
ceedings of the supreme court
in the case, ,and of his motion and record
of the court Overruling it. He left for
Chicago at 1855 p. nj. He asked Mr..
Taylor to examine the record and make
an estimate of what it would cost and
send to him by the night mail and they
would decide tomorrow what to do.
The records contain 1000, 900 words, and
to copy it in the short time Mr.. Black
suggested it would take score of type
writers.